Georgina Wolfe

Practice Areas

Georgina specialises in inquests, public inquiries, police law, public law, human rights, civil liberties and malfeasance.

Georgina is on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel (having been on the Panels since 2012).

She is currently instructed in several high profile inquiries including the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Dawn Sturgess Inquiry and the Undercover Policing Inquiry. She acts as Counsel to the Inquest as well as for clients ranging from high profile individuals, police forces, political parties, government agencies, the IOPC and prisons to healthcare providers, social services and families.

Georgina appeared as junior counsel for the Rt Hon Boris Johnson in Cabinet Office v Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry [2023] EWHC 1702 (Admin) which considered the disclosure of WhatsApp messages to a public inquiry.

Before joining chambers, Georgina was a Middle Temple Queen Elizabeth Scholar and the Middle Temple Fox Scholar in 2007 when she worked at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto.

Co-editor of 5 Essex Chambers' police law newsletter The Beat.

Co-author of:

- two chapters OUP’s National Security Law (on civil actions and the National Security and Investment Act 2021)

- The Path to Pupillage

Georgina co-presented Middle Temple’s The Pupillage Podcast.

She was the First 100 Years Project’s inaugural Inspirational Women in Law runner up, 2016.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chambers website for her profile, which sets out full details of her practice including relevant work of note.